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I'm sure my first group wasn't the only one which didn't know what the various polearms looked like (or even that they were polearms!). Obviously the glaive was that magical remove-controlled spinning spikey thing from the movie Krull. Many of my fighting characters carried one or more of those...

You folks have hit most of mine. I'd like to see a lot of D&D cliches littered throughout the movie. A patch of green slime. The movie starts in a tavern. The main characters aren't do-gooder heroes--just treasure hunters. Classic magic items like: bag of holding, portable hole, etc. Cursed...

One of the coolest scare tactics I've seen used is to kill the entire party in the first ten minutes in a ruthless battle. Then, hand out pre-gen PCs at half the level of the dead guys. "These are the guys that have to hunt down the BBEG." Make up all the monsters. Give them abilties never...

You can check it out here: http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator?group=30&item=5042 The site is great. It has a built-in spreadsheet to help you calculate things like O.G., bitterness levels and color for your selected beer style. The batch is fermenting nicely in my basement. I'll...

I was one of the lucky ones at Gencon. I got in there Friday morning right as the vendor hall opened up and nabbed a copy. I haven't played SR since 1st edition so I don't really know what they did with the rules in between. Still, I really like the fixed TN and lack of extraneous Dice Pools...

Ok, last Thursday, before our first game session post-Gencon, I stopped at The Ram on my way home to pick up a couple of growlers of that great Scottish Ale they made just for the con. But the server said they ran out on Sunday! Nooooo! So tonight I brewed my own. Glasgow Kiss Scottish Ale...

Alton Brown is my hero. We've gotten so many good recipes from his show & books. We make his pouch recipes all the time, with some of our own modifications. His mac-n-cheese recipe is amazing, we are making it for our Thursday night game this week. And you have to try his left-over fried...

Several years ago my wife and I were on our first vacation--a trip to San Francisco and the Napa Valley. We had a blast--newly married, sampling wine and enjoying the beautiful weather and scenery in a convertible. But dozens of times during our vacation, mostly at the wineries during tastings...

I picked this up at the con. Life has been conspiring against my attempts at reading it all the way through. I haven't actually played shadowrun since 1st edition and I like what they've done--especially with the fixed TN. Here's my question for others who have it: Is there any section on...

One of my players invents all sorts of props to "hex" my die rolls. His favored medium is 3x5 cards (which we use fall kinds of things like keeping track of bonuses, magic items, secret notes, etc). He makes little tents of them and draws pictures of me rolling 1s. One time, he punched a...

Did he say anything about brewing or winemaking?

I played the 1/2-orc monk in the Thursday "Ghost Cube" game. What a blast. I've told all my gaming buddies about it and we are going to try this out in our weekly game. The thing I liked best was how someone would take a plot idea and tweak it slightly before handing it off to the next guy. I...

Good: * Playing the best poker I ever have at Thurs night's WSOG and making it to the 5th blind level. * Running a dice poker tourney with 15 people (many of which were repeat players from last year) where the winner took home 300 dice. * Running into an old friend who I haven't seen in 7 years...

Ahhh come on. My non-gamer wife made me buy that movie because we had so much guilty fun watching it. Any movie with the line, "With this axe, I RULE!" can't be half-bad. It definitely falls into the class of "Movies that could have been D&D campaigns I've played in".

This is kind of what I thought. The tech is almost there to make it relatively seamless. But there's the human nature part of it. It would be easy to forget the remote folks at critical times. Its a shame. I have a couple of buddies cross-country who would love to join in our weekly game, but I...

TV show plots are hugely impacted by commercials. Imagine having to write a story that gets interrupted several times. You can see the contrast by watching the Sopranos or Six Feet Under or some other cable show that gets back that 20 minutes of wasted time. Thing is, commercials are great for...

Has anyone tried running a table top gaming session with both local, face-to-face players and remote players using online tools like OpenRPG, IM or video conferencing? Can it work?

My buddies and I saw this preview. We were hanging out in the room before it watching fan films (and having a good laugh). When they started up, we were baffled at how fast the room had filled up and the legions of gamers waiting in line to see it. I did see a guy with a camcorder. I'm...

I'm glad to see someone went to the Garden. We who work in downtown Indy worship that place. Thing is, if you go there for lunch, you may be sleeping through your afternoon due to food coma... Oh man, now I want to go today...

Shadowrun 4th Ed. -- Still reading it. I haven't played this since the first one came out. It looks like a lot of the rules have been simplified. Iron Heroes -- Sweet. I got to play a demo with Mike Mearls. I like how this book encourages much more movement on the battlemat. Lately, our combats...